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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
This to me is a surprising attitude. As an American whose outlook is generally framed by American values, it’s very upsetting to think of how privacy and freedoms are systematically impinged upon in so many parts of the world. If we can be
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
Do you have any sources for that? I ask because the article I linked specifically states that Apple was forced to discard the entire encryption system it uses elsewhere. It’s also hard to understand why a government would insist on this sor
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
I agree the question of whether Apple was compelled by whatever government (or if they did this voluntarily) has implications on the ethics of these decisions. They may genuinely have no choice. But I don’t see how it affects the question o
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
It’s my understanding that the keys used in that “end-to-end” encryption are also under the control of the operator [1], so from a privacy perspective it is the same as handing over that data in plaintext. [1] https://www.nytimes
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
I don’t understand why this outrage seems so US-centric. This is the same Apple that hands over all your iCloud data (photos and otherwise) to the CCP if you happen to live in China. And they’ve done this openly for the last several years
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
And yet, the way Apple openly operates iCloud in China is infinitely worse than Google's Dragonfly ever could have been. Apple's reputation for privacy is entirely undeserved.
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
Apple TV is ad free so long as you don’t count the un-dismissable 1p promos for Apple TV+ trials and Apple Arcade trials.
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
Right, in a way I think this opening tweet just undercuts the entire argument. It's a simplistic description of a problem, which the body of the article returns with a simplistic sort of solution. The truth is that I want paste to matc
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
I think to start with, it's a matter of cost for the expense account.
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
Mubi really is excellent if you like the kind of art-house content they license. I think if I only kept one streaming service it'd be them.
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
> if there was "evidence" that not punishing murderers was the "best thing for society" (in terms of rehabilitation, crime rate, etc) would you support that policy? For most people, a society that doesn't punish
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
If a dog gave a positive result 93% of the time, but it was a false positive 40% of the time, does that mean 63% of suspects were carrying? Maybe I'm square, but that seems absurdly high to me unless the dogs are only used when there i
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
A little afraid to ask what may be an obvious question, but what exactly does the shortage consist of? Computer chips aren't generally interchangeable and I assume they're mostly purpose-built. Is there a shortage of raw materials
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
I've always thought of OOP as structuring a program the same way you'd structure a business. There are distinct divisions with responsibilities and internal state, with somewhat well defined ways to communicate with each other. Pa
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
Good question. It's less pronounced than Wyoming, but I wonder why Alabama looks so different from its neighbors.
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
This reminds me of how Roland Barthes would categorize prose as either "readerly" or "writerly", whereas a readerly work is a straightforward and passive experience for the reader, a writerly work is a sort of framework
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
I don't know if this helps, but I had a similar problem getting through even one page in a good book. My mind would wander somewhere else mid page and when I realized it, I'd feel silly and have to rewind and rebuild context to co
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
Paying a fair amount of taxes definitely has a big ethical component to it, AND the laws around it probably ought to be changed, but that doesn't imply that they should be changed strictly because of the ethical reasons. Specifically,
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
Weird how finance suddenly becomes "gambling" when a bunch of regular people join the table.
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
I have to disagree: Apple certainly could block content in a selective way that avoids breaking apps (not that Apple is particularly averse to breaking existing apps). Beyond that, the browser engine may be an irrelevant implementation deta
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by whatgoodisaroad 5y ago
I could imagine a somewhat cynical science fiction story where Earth manages to communicate with an intelligent alien species using fundamental constants and rules of mathematics. But then, the aliens transmit a prime that the humans have
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by whatgoodisaroad 6y ago
I think that's right that pwn2own exploits are generally new to the public, but that only means it's not provably out there. Just to be clear, I think programs like this are great and they do improve safety, but only because they
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by whatgoodisaroad 6y ago
Maybe the zero-day isn't disclosed from this pwn2own itself, but importantly, we now know it exists, which means we should consider how many bad actors are already independently aware of it and are exploiting it. Responsibe disclosure
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by whatgoodisaroad 6y ago
My experience of Goodreads is that it used to be weird and unpolished, but basically on a trajectory towards being a solid niche social network for book readers. But then, Amazon spent a lot of money to buy it, so they did the sensible thin
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by whatgoodisaroad 6y ago
I'd wager that the parts of the earth that are chronically in need of food were also not supplied with masks.
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by whatgoodisaroad 6y ago
I'm slowly reading through a book called the "History of Mathematical Notations" by Florian Cajori and it sounds like just what you're looking for. It goes into far more detail than probably anybody would wish for on the
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by whatgoodisaroad 6y ago
I always thought this would be a killer feature of Spotify. They already have music licenses sorted and they have social connections already baked in. A turntable-like feature could be little different from a collaborative playlist. Maybe t
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by whatgoodisaroad 6y ago
I think there's a really basic human itch that TT.FM scratches: namely that, for the vast majority of human history, experiencing music has a social/collective experience. It's really remarkably recent that it's even bee
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by whatgoodisaroad 6y ago
Exactly. Probably every discovery in math starts out with something that's only close to the truth (like multiplication-is-repeated-addition) but generalizing it to open up whole new areas. This part of math is so exciting and compelli
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by whatgoodisaroad 6y ago
I like this article, but I feel like it misses the value of teaching analysis to students. It's true that it's not-quite-right to say multiplication is repeated addition, but it's also a really nice demonstration of the ana

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